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{{newreview|author=Heather Morris|titleclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=The Tattooist of Auschwitz|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=So, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see the horror there, and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in the political wing of the SS, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the place, and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, under the eyes of all the camp guards? "15" The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, and survived to tell the tale, but he also managed to do something even more daring, and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the camp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->1785763644</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rachel Halliburton|title=The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth!-century scandal|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens in London in January 1797. Benjamin West, President of the Royal Academy, is reflecting on the past year's scandal involving the Provises, father and daughter, and worries that he handled everything poorly. From the start the book's figurative language is appropriately full of colour and painterly techniques: 'He had intended to deal with them honourably, but now everyone in London was saying he had not. It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded and stirred the memory, the murkier it became.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715651978</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Banks|title= W|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary=On the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen Lock - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westward, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0983333416</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Elaine Everest-|titlestyle= Christmas at Woolworths|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=''Christmas at Woolworths'' is the sequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths Girls,'' and continues the story where the first book left off. Members of the close"width: 10%; vertical-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale high, even though the future is uncertain. At the heart of the neighbourhood, the home of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family and friends can gather for good food and conversationalign: a way to forget the troubles outside. Spirits remain hightop; even when the bombs are falling so close to home. We catch up with the three friends from the first booktext-align: Sarah yearns for peace and an end to the war, Maisie is desperate for a child and Freda would love to find romance. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas?center;"|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509843655</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Minette Walters|title=The Last Hours|rating=4[[image:1787198243.5jpg|genrelink=Historical Fiction|summary=In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe in Dorset. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, the disease rages through the country. On the estate of Develish, Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the people who lived in the demesne after her husband had ridden off to try and secure a marriage for his daughter. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate and when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the plague she ordered that the estate refuse entry to anyone, including her husband and his entourage, for fear that they would bring the disease to her people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760632139<http:/amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title=The Sixteen Trees of the Somme|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=While his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparents, having survived the accident that killed his parents. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his mother's name, the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. Edvard is determined to solve the puzzle, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toby Clements|title=Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1470 dawns and the next chapters of the War of the Roses are ready to play outwww. King Edward thinks that the future has been settled but treachery is still lurkingamazon. Meanwhile Katherine and Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that ledger and a chance comment threaten all they have, including their livesco.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089466X<uk/amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=P F Chisholm|title=Guns in the North (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – and his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden of the West March in Carlisle. The Scottishdp/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from the world he's left behind but it will have to become his world. It's now his job to bring law to the lawless. This isn't easy when every local he comes across has an affinity and a heritage of crime to some degree. For Robert the best thing about the job is its proximity to the woman he loves but he doesn't know what he'll do about that yet either. Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to be on his side are plotting against him but they don't realise what they're up against. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694719<1787198243/amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorref=Zanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title=The House with the Stained-Glass Window|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summarynosim?tag= Marianna, an opera singer in the soonthebookbag-to-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a political rally in the dying days of the Soviet Union. This novel begins with both anger and hope, as Marianna's coffin is covered in the illegal blue and yellow flag, and her death seems to herald the birth of a new nation. But the day of her funeral is also the day of her daughter's first period – a girl who must learn how to be a woman in this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her along the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857057138</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= K J Whittaker|title= False Lights|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Cornwall, 1817.21]]

{{newreview|author=Hawa L Crickmore|title=Across the Ocean|rating=4|genrestyle=General Fiction|summary=A young cage fighter, Martin Grandson, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder which required a bone"vertical-marrow transplant, preferably from a sibling. Only recently he'd been a fit young man, in the prime of life, but now he was suffering from a rare type of bone canceralign: without the transplant he would be paralysed for life and might be dead within the next twelve weeks if he didn't receive the transplant within the next fourteen days. Unfortunately Martin's parents had died in a car crash and there were no siblings or other close relatives. His girlfriend, Celia, was not a match.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666971</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= M J Tjia|title= She Be Damned|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= London, 1863top; text-align: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Franklinleft;"|title= Shelter|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in the Women's Timber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted [[Murmuration by his memories. In the forest camp, he finds a strange kind of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn together, the world outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumbling, and both must now make a life-defining choice.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonukRobert Lock]]=<amazonuk>1785762990</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Johnson|title= Court of Lions|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada a year ago. In the shadow of the Alhambra, one of the most beautiful places on earth, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends she's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alone, afraid and hiding under a false name. And fate is about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, a message, in a hand few could read, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paper. The paper was folded and pressed into one of the Alhambra's walls. There it has lain, undisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of Granada, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, in a time of danger and desperation, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Angus Watson|title= You Die When You Die|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Finnbogi the Boggy and his tribe of mushroom men (Vikings) must take a road trip through hostile territory whilst being hunted by the greatest fighting force ever seen (Amazonian Native Americans). Vikings meet Native Americans in a clash of cultures and potentially the end of the world. When the Queen of the known world says your tribe has to be exterminated then your immediate future may not be so rosy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356507564</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alison Weir|title=Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession: Six Tudor Queens 2|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Thomas Boleyn sends his daughters abroad to be trained at the courts of European royalty. Not only does this give them an education in the ways of the elite, it could also ensure a good marriage. Unfortunately he hasn't reckoned on the ideas that one of them, Anne, picks up and as for marriage… Anne is determined to marry for love not through some paternal arrangement. Yet the reality turns out to be different, driving a wedge through her family on a road leading to dark tragedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147222762X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Martha Conway|title= The Floating Theatre|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=When young seamstress May Bedloe is left alone and penniless on the shore of the Ohio, she finds work on the famous floating theatre that plies its trade along the river. Her creativity and needlework skills quickly become invaluable and she settles into life among the colourful troupe of actors. She finds friends, and possibly the promise of more. But cruising the border between the Confederate South and the 'free' North is fraught with danger. For the sake of a debt that must be repaid, May is compelled to transport secret passengers, under cover of darkness, across the river and on, along the underground railroad. But as May's secrets become harder to keep, she learns she must endanger those now dear to her.

And to save the lives of others, she must risk her own..[[image:3star. jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1785762907</amazonuk>}}Category:{{{newreview|author= Jenny Ashcroft|title= Beneath a Burning Sky|rating= 4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|genre= Historical General Fiction|summary=Young bride Olivia Sheldon finds returning to her childhood home in Egypt a bitter-sweet experience. On the one hand]], she has been reunited with her estranged sister Clara, and the pair have formed a deep and loving bond. On the other, she has an unhappy marriage to her domineering husband Alistair, who only married her to spite Clara, who had refused him previously. Life with the sadistic Alistair is unbearable, with Olivia subjected to horrific abuse at his hands, daily. As a lady with no means of supporting herself, Olivia seems trapped without any means of escape, only finding solace in the company of her sister and friends. But when her dear sister goes mysteriously missing in the bustling streets of Alexandria, it is up to Olivia to try and solve the mystery of her disappearance before it is too late.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751565032</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Conn Iggulden|title=Dunstan[[:Category: One Man Will Change the Fate of England|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The young Dunstan shows no sign of the sainthood he'll later attain. Son of a Wessex thane and sent to a monastery for education, this isn't a lad who responds to discipline. However an enquiring, intelligent mind begins to emerge and then comes the big break. Lady Elflaed calls to put a proposal to him after hearing about what she considers to be a miracle and the monks consider another in a long line of excuses. Yet Dunstan will outshine all his teachers as well as knowing seven kings and holding responsible positions in their courts, as the book's title suggests. Whether we believe in the miracles or not, Dunstan certainly had quite a life!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718181441</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Simon Edge|title= The Hopkins Conundrum|rating= 5|genre= General Historical Fiction |summary= Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub in Wales, which he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated mystery about Gerard Manley Hopkins, who composed ''The Wreck of the Deutschland'' nearby.]]

''Murmuration'' follows the lives of a host of characters from 1863 to the present day. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamour. There is a hint of mysticism to the tale, with the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. [[Murmuration by Robert Lock|Full Review]] <!-- Winthrop -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Winthrop_Mercy.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147367249X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147367249X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In Victorian Englandan isolated Louisiana town, Gerard Manley Hopkins lives a life full young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of confusion and contradictionthe window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays. At midnight, but discovers he will be dead; strapped to a calling chair and electrocuted for poetry that threatens the rape of a white girl, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to overrule protest his calling innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]] <!-- Maitland -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472235878.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472235878/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to Godsurvive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side of human nature. AndThe land is unhappy, speaking the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of Godthe old faith. As fear rises, Five nuns leave persecution it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to travel ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of change. [[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland|Full Review]] <!-- Syson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Syson_Peacock.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785761862/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a new world ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – only to find themselves but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far more trouble that than they could ever have imagined… were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson|Full Review]] <!-- Mazolla -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472234782.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1785630334<http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472234782/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}}Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] {{newreviewAudrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected. [[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola|Full Review]] <!-- Glendinning -->|-|authorstyle=Anne O'Brien"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0715652915.jpg|titlelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0715652915/ref=nosim?tag=The Shadow Queenthebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning]]===4 [[image:5star.5jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]|summary=Born The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intrigue, plots and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry and the characters are often those high up in 1328the circles of power, or those prepared to do anything to get there. This book, Joan however, is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Kent may be Agnes Peppin, a young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marry, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and she is sent to join the nuns of royal blood but sheShaftesbury Abbey. [[The Butcher's from a family tainted Daughter by Victoria Glendinning|Full Review]] <!-- Longridge -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1788034503.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788034503/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Silence in the Desert by treacheryDavid Longridge]]=== [[image:3.5star. Her father Edmund Woodstockjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] As the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planet, 1st Earl four people are explored in a tale of Kentlove and friendship. Henri, was executed for his part fulfilling a family tradition in joining the infamous Montague plotForeign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. However Joan has grown up under As the protection of her cousinwar rages, these men are tested like never before, King Edward III with trust, loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. [[Silence in the advantages and attributes Desert by David Longridge|Full Review]] <!-- Weir -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472227670.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472227670/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her as a princesspious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. YetPerhaps both sides are true, much to her motheran extent. In ''s chagrinThe Haunted Queen, obedience isn't one ' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the shadow of these attributesa formidable predecessor. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir|Full Review]] <!-- Dalrymple -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:140886553X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. Joanuk/dp/140886553X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In Gold's head strong feist takes her on Name by Marcus Dalrymple]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a varied journey in lifedecent man, particularly by the standards of the time. Having said thatHe was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the force, but at the age of twenty three husbandshe believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, five marriages (technically) he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and a son destined for removing the English throne means Aztec gold and that itany conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. [[In Gold's also been one heck of a lifeName by Marcus Dalrymple|Full Review]] <!-- Hall -->|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1848455070<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785630806.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785630806/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall]]===Patricia Falvey [[image:4star.jpg|titlelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] ''The Girls Industry of EnnismoreHuman Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the simplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall|Full Review]] <!-- Varese -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: A Hearttop; text-Rending Irish Sagaalign: center;"|[[image:0715653008.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/0715653008/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|genre===[[The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese]]===Historical Fiction [[image:3star.jpg|summarylink=Ireland 1900Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Ennismore HouseHistorical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Jon Michael Varese's young heiress Victoria had hoped that she debut novel was inspired by the life story of the real-life father of spirit photography, William H. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here is Edward Moody, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and Rosie Killeen would be friends forevernow owns his own photography studio in Boston. Rosie soon comes Moody is dismissive of spiritualism, yet considers himself to know better as there's be doing a social chasm between those who live service to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs in which the House ghost of a departed loved one appears. This involves getting hold of an image of the loved one and thosesuperimposing it on the negative being developed, like Rosieso that it seems to appear hazily in the background. Looking back from today's familyhigh-tech perspective, who it's hard to see how anyone could have been brought up merely fooled, but suffering people in desperate situations often want to serve thembelieve; the same goes for séances. [[The days Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese|Full Review]]  <!-- de Lacey Davidson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1506905900.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1506905900/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of innocence are coming to an end Frederick Douglass in many waysIreland. SoonAnd even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the cry famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish Home Rule becomes loudernationalist, Daniel O'Connell. [[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]] <!-- Daniel Peltz -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912083779.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912083779/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and old. Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, but there'll be s more too it than steps on society's ladder between them she knows, particularly as each must discover their own way the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, who helped in a nation that will never be building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the same againmuseum.[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz|Full Review]] <!-- Worsley -->|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1786490625<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Worsley_Mary.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/408869446/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]{{newreview''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heir. This time, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by a father under the influence of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous events. [[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley|Full Review]] <!-- Curran -->|-|authorstyle= Elaine Everest"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|titlelink= The Butlins Girlshttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== 4 [[image:4star.jpg|genrelink= Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]|summary=FreshYou are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor -faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness or else doom yourself to start her new job life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a Butlins auntierogueish sense for adventure. Behind When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the smiles ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and confident appearanceterrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, she hides a secret; she has taken werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the job way, it's clear this isn't going to escape escalating problems at homebe an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]<!-- Mayfield -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1786072424.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. She soon finds good friends in her chaletuk/dp/1786072424/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-mates Bunty and Plumalign: left;''|===[[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In eighteenth century London, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and it turns out that Verity are changed forever when they each have their own reasons for wanting become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a fresh startmysterious child. MeanwhileFast forward to the London of 2015, Molly and the sisters are still waiting - with no way of knowing if the boy is shocked alive or dead. Far away, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, but also forces them to discover keep a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass by, those who were granted immortality find that her movieit's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the absence of death. [[The Parentations by Kate Mayfield|Full Review]] <!-- Laws -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Laws_Munich.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178803788X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've played Neville Chamberlain in public, you know – a full one-star crush Johnny Johnson line in a ''Beyond the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has a piece of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bag, in fact, by blowing it up and immediately bursting it. That is working as what that paper was to many – the indicator of a lot of hot air, and only leading to an entertainment adviser at unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anyway. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the Nazis, and this book opens with the first-person reportage of one such man, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should not sign the campSudetenland away. Is But he really as suave as only got so far before his onstory was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-screen persona? And why is he working daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominy, to pick the camp anyway? As hidden secrets become discoveredlast, barest threads of the story up and see just what did happen to him. Oh, Molly and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their newhelp has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! by David Laws|Full Review]] <!-- Kristjansson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-found freedomalign: center;"|[[image:Kristjansson_Kin.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786489937/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |amazonukstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Kin by Snorri Kristjansson]]===<amazonuk>1447295536</amazonuk> [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}}Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]]{{newreviewUnnthor Reginsson is the uncrowned king of the valley; retired Viking farmer and rumoured owner of a large hoard of gold. He is gathering his clan, a grand reunion after ten years of absence. It is time for strengthening family bonds, feasting, telling tall tales and remembering shared history. [[Kin by Snorri Kristjansson|Full Review]] <!-- Chadwick -->|-|authorstyle= Geraint Jones"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751564974.jpg|titlelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751564974/ref=nosim?tag= Blood Forestthebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Templar Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick]]=== 5 [[image:5star.jpg|genrelink= Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] |summary= Felix''Templar Silks'' is a great example of historical fiction done well. The lucky one. He doesnIt's a fictitious account of William Marshal't feel especially lucky when he staggers out into s time in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the grove and finds twelve death of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his comrades butchered and mutilated life for lack of research. In this book she goes back to fill in the worst possible waysgaps having spent time studying this particular period of his life. He felt even less lucky Her main problem, as she acknowledges at the end of the book, is that virtually nothing is known of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when and why he went, we know who the soldiers arrivedmajor power players were, Roman cavalrywe know when he came back and that is about it. He might have runSo understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but he knew he'd never make itis brilliantly written none the less. [[Templar Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick|Full Review]] <!-- Mitchell -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:MandM_Revenge.jpg|left|link=http://www. He stepped out to face whatever came nextamazon.co.uk/dp/1520973179/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Revenge by Mitchell & Mitchell]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|amazonuklink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''Revenge'' opens with the news that Charles Stuart is to return to the throne as Charles II of England. A young woman, Ruth Courtney, is returning home to her family's farmhouse, excited at the prospect of a new King. She arrives home, however, to find her home ablaze and surrounded by renegade soldiers, supporters of Cromwell, her family nowhere to be found. [[Revenge by Mitchell & Mitchell|Full Review]] <amazonuk>0718184815</amazonuk!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}|}